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The physicians with specialized knowledge and skill of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs can now deliver more procedures to patients locally.

Treatment of urological diseases, like kidney cancer, will be advanced with updated operative equipment that is less invasive on patients than traditional open surgery.

“New laparoscopic equipment, like the harmonic scalpel, will enable our new surgeon to perform minimally invasive surgery to treat kidney

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cancer,” Jane Cusden, KBRH’s acute health service director, told the Times.

“In addition to the acquisition of new laparoscopic equipment, updating of open surgical instruments will allow surgical treatment of prostate and bladder cancer without patients having to travel outside the area.”

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Trail tackles ongoing problem with illegal dumping $500 fine will be imposed by month end for anyone caught leaving junk on city property SHERI REGNIER Trail Times

Heidi McLachlan recalls the afternoon she caught two people dumping junk on rural land above her Sunningdale home.

Just two months ago the plucky grandmother confronted the pair - two men she approximates were 25 years of age.

“They drove up with a load of garbage and came down with the back of the truck empty,” she told the Trail Times.

McLachlan and her walking partner stopped the young guys and asked them where the garbage was.

“They just looked at us like it was nothing,” she said, clearly frustrated. “Like it was an entitlement and they could do whatever they wanted on vacant land.

“And they had no intention of even thinking about going back,” McLachlan vented. “It was just this attitude, like it’s an entitlement.”

Thinking a hit to the pocketbook might be the best recourse for indifference, a call to the city only piqued her

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“No Dumping” signs are posted at various spots around Trail. so following the meeting, the dismay.

“I thought a fine was in city will have the ability to place when I phoned the issue violators a $500 fine.

McLachlan and her huscity, so I told them it was really disheartening to hear band are headed south until that there wasn’t,” she said. the snow melts. But she is “I mean, people get a ticket hopeful that come April, when they don’t plug a park- when she returns to Trail and ing meter, but with some- begins daily walks near the thing like this, you can’t cre- water tower, that loads of garbage aren’t what lie beneath ate a fine?”

That is readying to change the thaw.

“Right now it’s hard to this month because the city is tell because of the snow but also fed up with the mess.

Trail council gave three people are still dumping in readings to its ticketing areas they think the cameras bylaw last month that offi- aren’t like the gravel pit,” she cially adds “Illegal Dumping” said last week before leaving town. as a $500 offence.

“I had my neighbour’s The matter is up for adoption at Monday night council, dog one day and found him

in a pile of garbage hidden behind a little knoll so you wouldn’t see it,” McLachlan continued. “It was bad, fresh garbage with diapers.”

She’s optimistic, but also skeptical, the $500 fine will deter people from dumping garbage on rural land instead of respective disposal at the landfill.

“I think the whole system has to change and there has to be a shift in attitude and this sense of entitlement,” she said. “And if you commit the crime you need to be accountable, because right now, no one is being held accountable.”

Another person who sees firsthand how illegal dumping impacts the environment as well as city coffers, is Public Works Manager Larry Abenante.

Like McLachlan, he is hopeful a monetary penalty will act as a deterrent.

During the warmer months, it is Abenante’s department called out to clean up dumps left in Upper Sunningdale, near Violin Lake, the Trail airport and often piled at neighbourhood bear proof bins.

“I am busy with other things in the winter and haven’t had time to go out and look myself,” said Abenante. “But a $500 fine, I think that’ll be a huge deterrent.”

Focus now shifts to ‘mini-campaign’ for airborne isolation room CONTINUED FROM A1 Cusden added.

Additional flexible “scopes” will further improve the diagnosis and management of benign prostate disease, bladder cancer, and aid in preoperative planning.

Dr. Robinson’s new skills and techniques brought to the operating room paired with new equipment ultimately will ensure more patients remain at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH), rather than travel to Kelowna or Vancouver for care.

“From the minute Dr. Robinson arrived, we’ve been hearing positive stories of patients who are thankful, excited and grateful,” said Pasin. “For us, it’s really a positive experience to be involved in a campaign like this that’s serving our residents right throughout the Kootenay Boundary so well.”

The foundation has now shifted its focus to a “mini-campaign” to help top up funds for an airborne isolation room planned for the Intensive Care Unit at the Trail hospital. The foundation’s goal of

“For us, it’s really a positive experience to be involved in a campaign like this that’s serving our residents right throughout the Kootenay Boundary so well.”

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$57,000 will help pay for the total project cost of $795,00 mostly shared between IH and the West KootenayBoundary Regional Hospital District.

Since 1988, the foundation has raised over $13.8 million through donations from private and corporate donors.

Funding priorities include raising endowed

gifts and annual funds to support health care equipment needs, staff education, and special initiatives to enhance health care through the Trail hospital and other Kootenay Boundary facilities.

Campaign discussion starts about six months before kick off with communication between IH and the foun-

dation. Talks centre around what the next priority is in the region, always focusing on needs not met through capital funding.

“We’re always trying to work closely with IHA to choose top priority needs or emergent needs to make sure that we’re keeping health care the best and the strongest for the citizens in the Kootenay Boundary,” said Pasin.

Contact the KBRH Health Foundation tollfree at 1888-364-3424, locally at 250-364-3424 or via email at info@ kbrhhealthfoundation. ca.-

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Parents of young children will likely agree that some days they have no idea how to make it to bedtime.

“It’s such a big job for many of us,” says Christy Anderson. “And yet we often feel like we are working ‘in isolation.’”

There’s strength in numbers, so as regional coordinator for the Family Action Network (FAN), Anderson is launching a series of adult gatherings to support the challenges of child rearing.

“The idea for the Conversation Cafe came from consultation with local parents who have asked for the opportunity to come together and chat about parenting,” explained Anderson. “Sharing stories, strategies and thoughts about parenting with other parents in the community helps us to know that we’re not alone,” she added.

“FAN wants to support parents and caregivers, recognizing the critical roles they play in early childhood and throughout a child’s life.”

The first Conversation Cafe is slated for Tuesday in Trail from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy building at 1160 Cedar Ave. The inaugural session is for parents with children from birth to age five, and the focus of conversation will be, “Zero to Five: Help Me Thrive.”

“We’ll discuss parenting strategies and we also want to hear about ways we can help our region be more child friendly,” said Anderson, noting all that is required from parents is willingness to listen and participate.

“These are not presen-

tations or workshops, but rather the opportunity to talk with different people from our community about a particular focus area.”

A second Conversation Cafe is scheduled for Jan. 19 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Fruitvale Memorial Hall. That session is open to all parents and will focus on self-care.

“With little ones de-

pending on us, it makes sense to ensure we take time to look after ourselves,” says Anderson.

“We know it isn’t always easy to make our own health a priority.”

Kris Taks from the Circle of Indigenous Nations Society will be the cafe’s guest and offer information about self-care using a holistic approach inspired by indigenous ways.

Parents are encour-

aged to attend the meetings without their children, and a small subsidy toward childcare is available for those who may need it.

“If a parent is really hoping to attend and can’t find childcare, we will be flexible and find a solution,” Anderson said. “We want to make the sessions work.”

Space is limited so parents are asked to contact FAN for further

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Anderson can be reached at 1.855.368.3707 or by email at coordinator@ familyactionnetwork.ca A cafe is planned for Warfield on Jan. 28 though the location has yet to be announced, and again in Rossland on Feb. 18.

For information about FAN visit familyactionnetwork.ca.

With heavy hearts we announce Ines’ passing on Jan. 3 in Victoria BC. She died surrounded by the love and support of her daughter and son-in-law (Mary and Rick Homer).

Ines lived and raised her family in Warfield from 1949 to 1978, until moving to Victoria to be with her children.

Ines is now reunited with her husband, Alfredo (predec’d 1978) and her son, Renzo (predec’d 2001). Ines was the 2nd eldest of 9 children and is survived by 3 siblings in Italy and her brothers Paul and Alvise of Trail, BC. Our special thanks to Elaine Kumar who held a very special place in Ines’ heart. Her kindness, love and support over the years has been much appreciated.

Ines was much loved and will be deeply missed.

“Ciao Bella”!

The family of Clare Rommerdahl sadly announces her passing on January 4th, 2016 at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail, BC. Clare was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, and spent her childhood years in Grand Forks, BC. She married Chuck Rommerdahl in 1949.

Clare was very proud of her two children, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

They are: Jim (Donna) Rommerdahl, Jackie Patridge, Darren (Kim) Rommerdahl, Kari (Steve) McDonogh, Wayne (Trista) Rommerdahl, Scott (Sara) Patridge, Lindsay Patridge, Carly McDonogh, Hunter and Zaya Rommerdahl and Hilary and Vicky Rommerdahl. Clare was predeceased by her husband, Chuck Rommerdahl in 2011.

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Tourism is B.C.’s great hope for 2016

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s we head into 2016, we start wondering about the prospects for employment and income that a growing economy brings.

The prospects are not in what Jock Finlayson of the Business Council of British Columbia calls the industrial sector. That sector consists of B.C.’s traditional resource industries, forestry, mining, energy and food, and all the downstream processing and manufacturing generated from them.

The industrial sector will not be thriving in B.C. in 2016, not only because of weaker world demand, but also because this province has uncompetitive tax rates (the PST and the carbon tax) and is losing its competitive advantage of cheap energy as the cost of energy falls elsewhere in Canada.

We often consider tourism as the poor cousin to industry. This is a mistake. In its World In 2016 issue, The Economist magazine sees respectable global growth of 3.5 per cent across all sectors with total trade growing at three per cent. Tourism is one of the few sectors significantly above the average, rising at 3.9 per cent. Only entertainment and information technology come close.

Last year, tourtunately, security. ism made up 10 Until recently, most per cent of world people who could GDP, generating afford to indulge in US$7.6 trillion and international trav277 million jobs. el did not have to At the time, global worry excessively tourism was growabout their personal ing at 3.5 per cent safety. Sure, you had when total global to take your shoes ROSLYN growth was 2.3 per off at airports, watch cent. In Canada, out for pickpockets tourism generated and avoid some hot Troy Media $23.1 billion and spots, but this did more than one million jobs - 12 not cause most vacationers to per cent were in B.C. alone. cancel their planned trips.

Tourism is going to be even Now Paris, in many years the bigger and more important in world’s biggest tourist destina2016 for three main reasons: tion, has become a spot to be First is the poor performance avoided, adding to a growing list of our traditional industrial sec- of destinations that have experitors. enced violence or may reasonably Second, our weak Canadian expect it. Halifax airport has seen dollar makes us a very attractive some unexpected extra flights ardestination, especially to holiday- rive. These are intercontinental makers from the U.S. They get real flights to Europe that have revalue for money in a country that ceived bomb threats and need to is close, speaks English and offers check for explosive devices. The all the comforts of home. On the threat has been enough for some other hand, a low Canadian dol- passengers to cancel their planned lars means that more Canadians excursion and head home. will spend their holidays in this In B.C., many of the people I country and often in beautiful know and likely many of the peoBritish Columbia. ple you know are thinking of stayThe third reason is, unfor- ing closer to home in 2016. The

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trend began last summer when many tourism operators had their best season ever.

Expect even stronger growth in tourism in B.C. and Canada in 2016. Many in the global baby boom generation still have travel on their bucket lists and a bank account to pay for it, but their funds are not unlimited and their concerns for security are real. As the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia become less secure, Canada becomes ever more attractive.

With a little effort, we can ensure the tourism industries of B.C. and Canada benefit. If we were full to capacity in many facilities last summer then we need to expand that capacity to gain from growth. We also need to make sure that potential travellers know we are here and what we have to offer. It is called marketing. There also must be enough people with the right skills and attitudes to fill the jobs that a growing tourism industry will generate.

That should not be too much of a problem. Almost none of the other sectors will be doing as well.

Troy Media B.C.’s Business columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and speaker.

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Local jeweler shines at Christmas Although I grew up in Trail, I now live in the Lower Mainland.

I returned home during the Christmas holidays and needed to have some minor jewelry repair done.

I went to Lauener Bros Jewellers on Cedar Avenue and I was so impressed with their professionalism and customer service, that I wanted to share this with the community.

During their busiest time of year, they took the time to get my work done, by Christmas Eve no less!

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Consumers have trouble tackling debt

An editorial from the St. John’s Telegram The Christmas bills are trickling in. (Or, rather, the credit card totals are well in the red.)

This is the time of year many people are faced with some serious reckoning. Holiday gifts, food and spirits tend to add up.

Now it’s time to slim expenses, as well as the waistline.

Unfortunately, this isn’t only a post-Christmas phenomenon anymore. We don’t need a special occasion to rack up debt.

And we’re not happy about it, either.

A recent poll conducted for CIBC found paying down debt is the top financial priority for Canadians. Yet many seem powerless to do it.

“It’s not just first-time homebuyers, younger Canadians or those impacted by shifts in the economy, such as a downturn in the oilpatch, who are focused on cutting down their debt,” CIBC executive vice-president Christina Kramer told The

Canadian Press.

“Canadians across the country are telling us that reducing the burden of debt, along with keeping up with their bills, is what they are focused on.”

With all that worry, you’d think people would spend more responsibly.

You’d be wrong.

The household debt meter continues to climb to recordbreaking levels, hitting a new high in August.

A Bank of Montreal report at the time reported that of the 80 per cent of Canadians who are in debt, two-thirds would have trouble affording their debts if interest rates went up by just two percentage points.

For comparison, here’s how The Globe and Mail put it in September: “Canadians now spend an average 14 per cent of after-tax income on their debts, up from 11 per cent in 1990, even though interest rates have plunged from 14 per cent back then to below

one per cent today.”

Keep in mind, as well, that most incomes have remained relatively stagnant.

This is madness.

And the worst thing is that financial institutions and politicians have little to no motivation to help curb it.

Politicians like to see more consumer spending because it keeps the economy moving.

And banks want to make money.

But there’s a real threat it will come crashing down soon.

The government must find alternative means to encourage economic activity other than personal debt.

It will be one of the biggest challenges for the new federal government this year.

As well as promised infrastructure spending, it will need to boost exports and try to encourage more capital investment from businesses.

Canadians are too broke to prop up the economy any further.

Bromance budding in U.S.-Canada relations?

An editorial from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald What does a seemingly strong budding rapport between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama, two leaders at the opposite ends of their political careers, mean for U.S.-Canadian relations?

The short answer, of course, is that it can’t hurt. Leaving behind the frostiness that characterized Obama’s interactions with former prime minister Stephen Harper can only be a welcome change given the important relationship -- on trade, security and so many other levels -- between the two countries.

Trudeau and Obama both won resounding election victories as relatively young men after voters responded strongly to their calls to reject politics as usual and embrace hope and change.

They clearly already see eye to eye on issues like climate change, the environment and interna-

tional multilateralism.

Obama’s affinity for the new Canadian leader is reflected in the news Trudeau has been invited to Washington, D.C. for an official visit, including state dinner, on March 10. The occasion will mark the first time in nearly two decades that’ll happen, since then president Bill Clinton hosted former prime minister Jean Chretien at the White House in 1997.

How useful that rapport will prove will be put to the test on a number of outstanding files involving the two countries.

On the trade front, Obama will be pressing his Canadian counterpart to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-country free trade pact among nations representing 60 per cent of the world’s GDP, ratified by Parliament.

Canadian and American negotiators must also try to hammer out a new deal -- historically a thorny task -- to replace the 2006 softwood lumber accord

struck by Harper and former president George W. Bush. How those talks go will be telling.

Meanwhile, the two leaders will no doubt discuss the issue of continuing to confront the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Trudeau’s election pledge to pull out this country’s CF-18s has not drawn White House criticism, but clearly there are expectations around defining Canada’s future role in the U.S.-led military campaign.

Above those concerns, Trudeau -- who’s long said bettering relations with the U.S., our largest trading partner and most important ally, is a priority -- must also deal with the uncertainty a U.S. presidential year election brings.

As his father, Pierre Trudeau, famously said of Canada’s relations with the U.S., when sleeping beside an elephant, “no matter how friendly or temperate the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

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months, but have a winning record since Nov. 1, going 11-10 including a Times Sports Editor As Junior hockey’s Jan. 10 trade 6-4 record in December. The Smokies deadline approaches, the Trail Smoke also started off January with a 4-0 win Eaters will look to fill out its roster, over Surrey Saturday, in what will be their busiest month with 12 games but will likely retain its assets.

The Smokies made some noise on tap.

The turnaround can be attributed on Tuesday, dealing injured forward John Laurito to the South Shore Kings to a variety of factors: great goalof Foxborough, Mass, then signed tending from Bailey MacBurnie and Winchester, Mass. native Nolan Linden Marshall, executing systems Redler, who will join the team for more consistently, taking advantage their three-game road trip this week- of their opportunities, particularly end. Trail still has two cards open the serendipitous ones in shorthandand can add more talent, but Smoke ed situations, an improved power play Eater coach and GM Nick Deschenes that is now pushing a 20 per cent sucis both satisfied and hopeful with the cess rate, and a strong 84 per cent PK. But even more significant, the team group he and his coaching staff have is healthy heading into the final two assembled. months of the season, a luxury they “We feel pretty confident what we’ve accomplished so far,” said haven’t enjoyed in previous years.

“There’s some illness creeping in Deschenes. “It’s been part of the proa little bit, some bumps and bruises, cess in what we’re doing here to debut we’re coming off a seven day velop our players and to get the most out of them … I’d like to think we break, and I don’t notice at all that were very quiet this year as far as lull or that kind of funk that you get player movement, and I think a big mid-season. I think we might have part of why we are where we are is gone through that already, so we’re because we do believe in this group, hungry and excited to see what the and think that part of our success is next months will bring.”

Making the playoffs will be a huge because this group has been together step forward for the Smokies, but the for the most part.”

For the first time in five years, question remains, whether the team the Smokies are in a playoff position will have developed enough to comheading into Sunday’s trade deadline, pete against the Interior division’s top a result of continued improvement teams, Penticton, Salmon Arm, and West Kelowna, when the real season after a moderately slow start.

Trail went 6-10 over the first two starts in March?

CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 KIJHL JIM BAILEY

Hawks look to rake in Leafs JIM BAILEY

Times Sports Editor

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks will look for solace at home as they try to put an end to it’s three-game losing skid when they face the Nelson Leafs on Saturday at the Beaver Valley Arena.

The Nitehawks played a rough stretch of five-games-in-six days last week, culminating in a 7-4 loss to Castlegar Sunday.

However, with six days off, they’ll be fresh and

looking to make a statement against the Leafs who started the Hawks losing skid New Years Eve handing them a 7-4 loss.

With the time off, the Nitehawks coach and GM Terry Jones’ recipe to end the skid is simple.

“We get back to work,” said Jones. “We haven’t had any practice for a considerable length of time, and so now we have to go and have some good practices. The season gets

shorter from here on in and you have to start using your time to get better.”

The Leafs have undergone a bit of a resurgence since a coaching change saw Mario Dibella assume the reigns after former coach David McLellan and assistant Greg Andrusak suddenly resigned.

In addition, forward Rayce Miller and defenceman Max Daerendinger, two key players who had been CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Runners assembled in the Rossland Museum parking lot at noon on New Year’s Day to begin the S’no Fun Run, then jogged up the Old Cascade Hwy to keep alive a tradition started by Rossland organizer Graham Kenyon, who passed away in April.

S’no Fun Run chimes in New Year

in the run four years, having missed a couple of years when his wife was ill. He said he really enjoys it.

The New Year’s day run has attracted as many as 20 people, but has had far fewer some years.

This year ten runners made their way up the Cascade Highway, going as far as weather and energy would permit and then turning around and heading out to the Rock Cut for the equally traditional postrun hangout.

There were hot drinks, Rickard’s Red, chicken wings and good conversation. Everyone drank a toast to Kenyon and Caroline.

In the midst of the camaraderie, Wolfgang asked, “Same time next year?”

Kenyon’s legacy will be honoured on May 16, with his induction onto the Home of Champions monument in Trail.

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At noon on New Year’s day, former members of the Nooners Jogging Club met outside the Rossland Museum for their annual S’no Fun Run. The run started as a club activity in the ’80s, but continued on after the club dissolved and has taken place the first day of the new year ever since. But this time was different, because this time might be the last time.

The late Graham Kenyon, who passed away in April 2015, was the one who organized the annual event, and standing in the parking lot with nine other participants, Mel Johnson, who took on organizing the run this year, wasn’t sure that the event would continue without him.

Kenyon was a longtime employee at Teck and an active member of the

community who was passionate about the environment. He was also the one who always showed up for the S’no Fun Run with his wife Jill every year.

“He would come to this event in his underwear and his top hat,” said Johnson.

“Or he’d come in a tuxedo,” added Barb Johnson, Mel’s wife.

Mel and Barb made it to most of the S’no Fun Runs as well.

“Great guy. Was the spirit of this run, kept it going for years and sadly missed,” Leigh Harrison said of Kenyon.

Harrison was an original member of the

Nooners Jogging Club, which Kenyon started.

Kenyon was not the only runner missed this year.

Caroline Koban also passed away in 2015 and her husband Wolfgang Koban took part in this year’s run. It was Caroline who first got them involved with the S’no Fun Run, as they were not members of the Nooners club.

“One day Caroline said, ‘Hey let’s go on this thing,’ and off we went,” said Wolfgang. “I don’t know how she actually found out about it.”

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t has a long and, “storied,” his- the days when the Shoe Shop (itself tory, the local commercial long gone from Bay Avenue) squad hockey league, and was the dominant team some of the stories at the commercial level, will be retold enthusiastibut it says something cally next Saturday when that the league is still alumni gather at the Rex going strong after a hisHotel for a reunion. Since tory which began before most of the attendees live the opening of Cominco DAVE within minutes of each Arena. They will all, other it won’t be as if they however, have their own haven’t met for a while, recollections of spirited Sports ‘n’ Things but this meeting will be, (and, “spirited,”) compeorganizers hope, focused tition that allowed them on past glories, such as they may have to extend their playing careers beseemed. yond their athletic primes.

C’mon, most of those attending Lefty (Field) is back in town, and will know little beyond their personal appears to have been the inspirational experience of what was once known force behind the event, and Mo the as The Sunday Morning League - a Owner has details as well. If you have strong incubator for many provincial a few hours next Saturday and parintermediate championship teams, took of the pleasures of Commercial and once the training ground for League play, you should go. most of Trail’s multiple junior pro• Meanwhile, the Smokies embark vincial champions - and hyperbole on their last serious road swing - the will fly. There may be one or two in- results of which will go a long way tostances of, “Fish,” stories to go along wards determining their post-season multiple examples of, “fish stories,” prospects - tonight. Their next home (often inflated recollections of ex- game, the beginning of a 10 at home, ploits of yore) being passed around. five on the road, season finish, will Don’t get me wrong. Not a few of be a week Sunday. Here’s hoping atthose gathering (2 p.m., Rex) have tendance will be bolstered by many considerable hockey accomplish- of the former Smoke Eaters attending ments including provincial, interpro- the Commercial League reunion a vincial and even national titles at lev- day earlier. els from minor to senior amateur and And the Nitehawks, so dominant even professional hockey, on their through the pre-holiday period, will sporting resumes. That, too, will be begin Saturday, at the Hawks’ Nest, in the conversation mix, but it is likely trying to re-acquire the quality of play past local collaborations, and rival- they maintained for a month before a ries, will dominate the chatter. recent slide brought them back a bit Very few, perhaps only one, of towards the pack in the Neil Murdoch the participants will have personal Division. memories extending as far back as Welcome to 2016.

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Smokies on five-game road trip CONTINUED FROM A6

“Any team at this point wants to make themselves better and if we have an opportunity to do that, absolutely we will, but we’re definitely mindful of where the group is, and we don’t want to fragment things just for the sake of one player,” says Deschenes. “I think we have to really look at the whole scope of the team, and see if there’s a player that can come in and compliment this group.”

Trail plays the first three games of five on the road this weekend, before returning to the Cominco Arena on Jan. 17. The Smokies face off against the 17-17-4-1 Coquitlam Express tonight, a team that currently sits comfortably in fourth place in the Mainland division but has a potent offence with two Top-10 scorers in

Colton Kerfoot with 17 goals and 53 points, and Jackson Cressey, 2427-51.

On Saturday, the Smokies face their toughest task of the road trip in the Mainland division-leading Chilliwack Chiefs, a team that has lost just twice at home this season.

Trail returns home Sunday after facing the Mainland division’s last place team, the Surrey Eagles, in an afternoon tilt.

“Every game’s important and for us there’s no way around that, but we’re going to take it game by game.”

Trail will then travel to Prince George on Thursday to play the Spruce Kings, and will be in West Kelowna on Friday, Jan. 15. The Smoke Eaters next home game is Sunday, Jan. 17 when they host the Powell River Kings at 3 p.m.

Leafs energized by new coach

CONTINUED FROM A6 “They’ve been enerout with injuries since gized by the coaching November, have been change,” said Jones. “I cleared to play. The team also has Austin Anselmo back following his twogame suspension. DiBella also called up major midget goaltender Curt Doyle, who was exceptional in the win over B.V., and affiliate player Reese Tambellini.

don’t think they’ve made many personnel changes but they’ve got a few guys back from injury, and their top line played extremely well, and I also thought their AP goalie played extremely well, so it gave them a chance.”

The Nitehawks are al-

most back to health with the return of Kyle Hope before the new year, but captain Lyle Frank is still out with a lower-body injury.

The puck drop for the game against Nelson is 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Hawks will then hit the road for a game against Spokane on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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J.L. Crowe’s Grade 8 basketball team’s, Melina Lemieux, runs down Kelsa Leslie of the Grand Forks Secondary Wolves as she drives to the hoop in a game on Wednesday in Grand Forks.

Leslie would end up with 15 points to lead the Wolves to victory, while Abbe Teasdale led Crowe with 10 points.

Predators trade Jones for Johansen

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE - General manager David Poile hopes he finally has gotten Nashville the No. 1 centre he’s been trying to land for 18 years.

All it took was one of his best young defencemen.

The Predators traded Seth Jones to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Ryan Johansen on Wednesday in a move Poile hopes boosts Nashville’s offence and position in the Central Division standings.

“A lot of good players come through here and we’ve had some good centres, but I think we have a chance here to have truly a number one centre, something that we’ve been coveting for a long time,” Poile said Wednesday night.

Poile called it a steep price to pay. But Nashville ranks 13th in goals against and only 17th in goals scored. Poile said this season has been a struggle with the Predators inconsistent on offence.

Nashville currently is in the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference with 45 points, four ahead of Colorado.

“Having Ryan Johansen at centre ice, still with the defence that we have with our top four still being intact, I think this is a better balance for our club and gives us a better chance to win on a nightly basis,” Poile said.

Johansen, 23, played in every game for Columbus the past two seasons, and the 6-foot-3, 218-pound centre from Vancouver, British Columbia, had six goals and 20 assists in 38 games this season after scoring 26 goals and 45 assists last season. He has 79 goals and 114 assists in 309 career games and was

the fourth overall pick in the 2010 draft.

The forward said the trade didn’t come as a surprise with the rumours of a swap involving him for Jones the past few days.

“No secret we need defencemen here in Columbus, they wanted a centerman in Nashville,” Johansen said on a conference call. “I think both teams might be winning. Seth Jones obviously is an elite defenceman. Every time we play him you know he’s on the ice and you’re aware of him, and I’m hoping I can be that dangerous top line centre in Nashville.”

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The Master Weaver You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous – how well I know it. Ps 139:13,14 (NLT) Our God is a Master Weaver, in charge of every thread that is woven through the tapestry of our life. There are times when we don’t understand the problems we are going through, why God has chosen to weave some dark ugly thread into the mix. We have a choice: we can have a tantrum and demand that He stop, or we can worship Him even though we don’t understand, and trust that the ugly thread will somehow add beauty and contrast to all the other threads.

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Orthodox Christians across southern and eastern Europe celebrate Epiphany THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey – Wednesday was Epiphany, a major holiday in much of Orthodox Christianity celebrating the birth and baptism of Jesus. Religious services are held as well as Blessing of Water ceremonies at lakes, rivers and seafronts.

But in Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and other Orthodox countries that observe a different religious calendar, it is Christmas Eve. Roman Catholics and Protestants, meanwhile, celebrate the story of the Wise Men who followed a star to Jesus’ cradle.

Here’s a look at celebrations that took place: GREECE Ceremonies were held across the country, with divers jumping from piers, bridges and tug boats.

School children and members of the country’s navy special forces also took part.

VATICAN Pope Francis says restless hearts these days are seeking sure answers to life’s questions but don’t find them. Francis has voiced this reflection during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Wednesday to mark Epiphany, which recalls the Gospel account of the Three Kings, or Magi, who followed a star to find baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

The pontiff said: ``Like the Magi, countless people in our day have a ‘restless heart’ which continues to search without finding sure answers.’’

TURKEY Members of Istanbul’s tiny Greek Orthodox community, visitors from neighbouring Greece and other faithful attended an Epiphany service led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians in Istanbul, where the Patriarchate is based.

A group of faithful leaped into the frigid waters of the Golden Horn inlet to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by Bartholomew. Nicolaos Silos, a 28-yearold visitor from Greece, was the first to reach it.

SPAIN Children across Spain woke up Wednesday to open presents left during a night-time ``visit’’ by the Three Kings of Orient, a tradition similar to that of Santa Claus but celebrated annually on Epiphany.

Expectations were raised the previous evening as towns and cities across the country held Epiphany parades or cavalcades symbolizing the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem laden with gifts for the baby Jesus. Thousands of children and parents thronged sidewalks in Madrid and other cities to watch as ornately decorated floats _ including in some cases men dressed as kings riding camels or horses _ were accompanied by clowns, jugglers and marching bands.

The tradition spread from Spain to many Latin American countries where Epiphany is the day when gifts are exchanged.

UNITED STATES In New Orleans, Carnival season begins on Jan. 6 _ the ``Twelfth Night’’ after Christmas.

The Carnival season is celebrated along the Gulf Coast with parties, balls and parades culminating on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, a final day of celebration before the solemnity of Ash Wednesday and Lent. Mardi Gras falls on Feb. 9 this year. The countdown to Mardi Gras is marked by a streetcar full of raucous costumed revelers. The group known as the Phunny Phorty Phellows kicks off Carnival season Wednesday night by riding a streetcar through the city along famed St. Charles Avenue. And bakeries across the city have started churning out king cakes _ an oval-shaped pastry with a plastic doll hidden inside. Whoever finds the doll is dubbed ``king’’ and buys the next cake.

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Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for a long time. In the last couple of years, she has developed an incontinence problem. She seems not to be aware of how bad it is. She leaves rather fragrant underwear in the hamper, and the odor is horrible. If I bring up the subject, she gets very angry. She is in denial.

I wish I could suggest to her what her options are, what products are available for this problem and to wash her underwear more thoroughly. The odor is so strong, guests coming into the house can smell it. Maybe she simply can’t tell how bad it is. What do you suggest I do? What do you suggest she do?

This is a fairly urgent matter. Thank you. -- Embarrassed Dear Embarrassed: Your wife might be surprised to learn that incontinence affects more than 25 million people in the U.S., and most cases are treatable. There are different types of incontinence: Stress incontinence (leaking when you cough, sneeze, laugh); urge incon-

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Geri Coe’s new year kicked off on a fun note as she captured some northern flickers frolicking in the fluffy snow in her backyard.

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The West Kootenay Glacier Challenge is the largest fundraiser for the West Kootenay Chapter and the shorter route in 2015 drew a record number of riders! Lunch in Salmo and the cinnamon buns in Procter were a huge hit. Thank you to everyone who rode, donated, sponsored or volunteered!

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MS Walk - May 15th MS Bike - August 20th - 21st A Taste of Nelson - September 28th Thank you to our local sponsors!

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Kyle Bartsoff was snowmobiling up on Beaver Mountain on New Year’s Day when he stopped to snap this breathtaking bluebird scenery high above the valley clouds.

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Bev Harmston captured this mesmerizing photo at Red Mountain Resort on New Year’s Eve day. Some people refer to the phenomenon as a sun dog while others refer to it as diamond dust. According to Wikipedia, sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction of light from plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either in high clouds or, during very cold weather, drifting in the air at low levels, in which case they are called diamond dust.